My opinion, this idea blows

[The Watchdog]

Ok,

I am no racist or believe that I am a homofobic or xenofobic person...

But this is just not right...

POKER SITE EXCLUSIVE FOR GAY PEOPLE...

Come on.. there is no gender, sexual orientation, race or social status on poker...

POKER IS POKER AND THATS IT....

Online Poker Room for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Community Opens

For me, this site is going down...

Bad marketing idea in my opinion

[webber286]

With the glut of online poker sites these days, I guess they figured they needed to do some old fashioned niche marketing. Appeal to a smaller section of people and hope to dominate that target audience. Basic Marketing 101 actually. I seem to remember a women's only poker site somewhere along the line. Not sure how that one turned out.

[tennis_balls]

"i'm going to push all-in!"

"go ahead, sailor. i have the nuts."

[Zoozie]

"i'm going to push all-in!"

"go ahead, sailor. i have the nuts."

Excellent.

"Gay raise"(small raise with no purpose) is too obvious to also add to the list.

[GrandMaster]

Ok,
Online Poker Room for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Community Opens

What sort of documents do you have to provide to prove that you are eligible to play?

[Zoozie]

What sort of documents do you have to provide to prove that you are eligible to play?

Visual identification that proves it

[Casinomeister]

All jests aside, I see nothing wrong with this. Poker is not only a game but a social event. I think it's great that pokerrooms focus on this aspect instead of becoming the same ol' same ol' faceless entity. Whether it's a pokerroom for Trekkies or Barbie collectors, as long as there is a commonality amongst the players, it sounds interesting to me.

[TheGooner]

I don't see anything worng with it really but it does show the level that PC (politcal correctness) has invaded our global culture.

Imagine trying to get away with a hetro's only site.
Or Causcasian's only.
Or men only.

The outrage would be enormous ...

[The Watchdog]

Nothing wrong,

However it seems they are advertising the site as if it was a major need for the gay community...

At least, I have never heard of discrimination on online gambling...

Hello! its Online!! No one cares what your political, sexual or religious position is.

A nice idea would be to have an Uncensored Poker Room, where you won't get banned regardless what you express on a chat. So the rule would be simple: You can take it?? Go to another table or site...

They only thing I have seend that could be considered discrimination are some sites not allowing gamblers from Turkey, Denmark, China, etc.

Now days several sites are not allowing US players, and is not taken as discrimination...

Regarding the countries mentioned above... Its a matter of security due to bad credit history if I am not mistaken.

[Casinomeister]

Nothing wrong,

However it seems they are advertising the site as if it was a major need for the gay community....

Well, what would you do if you started up a site like this - not advertise it??

At least, I have never heard of discrimination on online gambling...

Hello! its Online!! No one cares what your political, sexual or religious position is....

It has nothing to do with discrimination, it's just a gathering of like-minded people, just like this forum. I'm sure you could sign up and say you're straight, nothing wrong with that. They just have gay stuff going on there I'm sure. Don't know if that interests you or not.

A nice idea would be to have an Uncensored Poker Room, where you won't get banned regardless what you express on a chat. So the rule would be simple: You can take it?? Go to another table or site...

And the conversation would look like this:
Mac: Hey dweeb, nh!!
Dweeb: Fuck you. You're an asshole.

And we could call it thispokerroomsucks.com